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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 12 | $****** - ****** | Number 12A, 1948: Yellow, Gray, Black |
Works on Paper
58 x 78 cm (22.83 x 30.71 in)
enamel on gesso ground on paper
signed and dated 48
Betty Parsons, New York (acquired from the artist)
Christie's New York, Contemporary Art from the Estate of Betty Parsons, November 9, 1983, lot 362
James Goodman Gallery, New York and Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above sale) Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1983)
Sotheby's New York, November 4, 1987, lot 122G
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, January - February 1949, cat. no. 12 New York, Museum of Modern Art, Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art, December 1949 - January 1950 Urbana, University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting, February - April 1950 Venice, American Pavilion, Biennale de Venezia, XXV exposition biennale internationale des beaux-arts, June - October 1950 Ithaca, Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University; Oswego, State University of New York Teachers College; Manchester, Currier Gallery of Art; South Hadley, Mt. Holyoke College, Calligraphic and Geometric: Two Recent Linear Tendencies in American Painting, December 1953 - May 1954 (This traveling exhibition, begun in October 1950, was organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This work replaced Number 31, 1949 in the final venues as cited) Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Pioneers of the New Image in Contemporary Painting, 1943 - 1948, Spring 1959 Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Macon, Mercer University; Reno, University of Nevada; Tacoma, Tacoma Art League; Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art; Oswego, State University of New York; Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Northfield, Carleton College; Cedar Rapids, Coe College; Claremont, Pomona College, U.S. Government Art Projects: Some Distinguished Alumni, February 1963 - February 1964 (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York) Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art; New Delhi, Lalit Kala Academy; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Two Decades of American Painting, October 1966 - August 1967 (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York International Council) New York, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Jackson Pollock, April - September 1967, cat. no 139, p. 101, illustrated Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; College Park, University of Maryland; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum; Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper, February 1968 - February 1969, cat. no. 37 (organized by the Department of Drawings and Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York) Montclair, Montclair Art Museum, Selections from the Betty Parsons Collection, January - February 1972, cat. no. 11 Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting, April 1979 - March 1980, p. 50, illustrated Southampton, Parrish Art Museum; Storrs, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut; New York, Zabriskie Gallery, 17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton - The Pollock Years, 1946-56, July - December 1980, cat. no. 48, illustrated on the cover and on the invitation New York, Rosa Esman Gallery, A Curator's Choice: A Tribute to Dorothy Miller, February - March 1982 New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock Exhibition, April - May 1983 Davenport, Davenport Art Gallery, American Works on Paper: 100 Years of American Art History, (exhibition organized by Smith Kramer Art Connections, toured extensively through the United States), 1983 - 1985, cat. no. 96, p. 103, illustrated in color New York, Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery, Jackson Pollock, November 1998 - June 1999, pl. 132, p. 236, illustrated in color.
"Jackson Pollock - Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?" Life Magazine, August 8, 1949, p. 42, illustrated in color Bernice Rose, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper, New York, 1969, p. 69, illustrated F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, volume 2, New Haven and London, 1978, cat. no. 200, p. 21, illustrated Leonhard Emmerling, Jackson Pollock 1912 - 1956, Cologne, 2003, p. 72, illustrated in color and p. 87, illustrated (reproduction of 1949 Life Magazine article) Exh. Cat., Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, 2009, fig. 39, p. 52, illustrated in color (reproduction of 1949 Life Magazine article).
